Roto Exclusive : Guest Contributions and Featured Articles
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y Steve Laidlaw<br />
In 2011-12 the Chicago Blackhawks boasted an offense that scored the 6 th most goals in the entire<br />
league despite a power play that ranked 26 th in efficiency. In other words, the Blackhawks left a ton of<br />
goals on the table. This is especially true when you consider that the Blackhawks boasted the 4 th most<br />
efficient power play in the league just one season earlier. Let’s say the Blackhawks split the difference<br />
this season <strong>and</strong> finish middle of the pack in power play efficiency. What that means is that even if the<br />
Blackhawks even strength scoring comes back to the pack a bit the players seeing the most power play<br />
time should receive a big kick in scoring. As such it becomes important to figure out which Blackhawks<br />
will receive power play time to determine which players are due for their kick <strong>and</strong> conversely which<br />
players are going to falter.<br />
TRENDING UP<br />
Patrick Kane –<br />
Kane has a career average of 25.6 power play points per<br />
season yet only recorded 12 PPP last season. It should come<br />
as no surprise that the scoring phenom should rebound from<br />
what was a career low 66 points last season.<br />
Duncan Keith –<br />
Keith may never come close to matching the career high 69 points he recorded in 2009-10 but he should<br />
improve on last season’s meager 40. Keith led the team in overall ice time as well as power play ice time<br />
by a defensemen <strong>and</strong> it wasn’t close in either case. Should Keith continue to see huge minutes in<br />
Chicago then it st<strong>and</strong>s to reason that by sheer luck alone his numbers will improve.<br />
Jonathan Toews –<br />
Toews is very quietly becoming the new Rick Nash – as in he’s a superstar player with all the talent in<br />
the world who continually teases us with his performance but never actually scores over 80 points even<br />
though we are already giving him credit for it. All he needs to do is submit an 80-game season <strong>and</strong> he is<br />
a guarantee to score over 80 points. Often times a big breakout is just the result of simple luck in the<br />
health department. Consider this a gamble on health.<br />
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